Chai Wan, Hong Kong Clinical Trials
A listing of Chai Wan, Hong Kong clinical trials actively recruiting patients volunteers.
Found 582 clinical trials
Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Cognitive Function and Upper Limb Motor Function in People With Chronic Stroke
Upper limb impairment is present in more than 85% of people with stroke, which greatly affect the quality of life, social participation, and performance of daily activities of people with stroke. Previous study also revealed that 53.4% of people after stroke experienced cognitive impairment. Different cognitive domains might be affected …
A Self-management Based Survivorship Intervention for Chinese Cancer Survivors
This study, using a sequential multiple assessment randomized controlled trial (SMART) approach, will evaluate a cancer survivorship care intervention on physical symptom distress, weight management, self-efficacy in managing cancer and health-related quality of life among Chinese patients recently completed curative cancer treatment.
Improving Post-acute Stroke Follow-up Care by Adopting Telecare Consultations in a Nurse-led Clinic
Since 2017, Hong Kong has provided post-acute stroke services in clinics operated by stroke advanced practice nurses (APNs). Currently, the applicability of the clinics has been further limited by the emergence of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic due to restrictions on visits to the clinics and tightened social distancing requirements. Telecare …
FAB Programme for Parents of Children With NDD
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a psychotherapy approach called Facilitator-guided Acceptance and Commitment Bibliotherapy (FAB) in improving the psychological health of parents of young children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and reducing the emotional and behavioral symptoms of NDD children. The study will involve 154 Cantonese-speaking parents of …
CD62L Depleted Donor Lymphocyte Infusion With T Cell Depleted Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
In this clinical trial, the investigators aim to apply CD62L depleted donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) together with in vitro T cell depleted haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) to treat patients with malignant or non-malignant disease in need of HSCT. The investigators shall evaluate the graft failure-free, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-free …
Glaucoma Rehabilitation Using ElectricAI Transcranial Stimulation (GREAT) - Randomized Controlled Trial Using Combined Perceptual Learning and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Vision Enhancement
Glaucoma is a complex disease that can result in progressive vision loss. It is the second leading cause of blindness, accounting for 23% of permanent blindness in Hong Kong. There are no treatments that restore vision lost to glaucoma. However, recent studies have shown that vision can be improved by …
Frontline Oral Arsenic Trioxide for APL
The investigators have formulated an oral preparation of arsenic trioxide (oral-ATO), and shown that it is efficacious for APL in R1, inducing CR2 in more than 90% of patients [8,9]. Furthermore, in an effort to prevent relapse, the investigators have moved oral-ATO forward to the maintenance of CR1. This strategy …
Olfactory Training on Smell Dysfunction Patients in HK
Causes of olfactory dysfunction can be classified into conductive and sensorineural causes. Conductive causes are mainly due to structural nasal problem, which can be treated by nasal surgery Sensorineural causes included post-infection, post-head injury, post Head and Neck irradiation and other central nervous system diseases. Olfactory Training is well established …
Learning Study: Improving Vision in Adults With Macular Degeneration
The purpose of this study is to test whether a kind of brain stimulation called anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) can be combined with perceptual learning to improve the ability of people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or juvenile macular degeneration (JMD) to read words presented to them on …
Letrozole in Preventing Recurrence of Endometrioma Following Laparoscopic Ovarian Cystectomy
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately 10-15% of women of reproductive age. Symptoms include dysmenorrhoea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia and infertility. Removal of the endometriotic cyst (chocolate cyst) by surgery is a well-established treatment for symptomatic relief. However, recurrence of endometriotic cyst after surgical removal of the …
